Rhetoric Review Jul 2002

John Dewey and Peter Elbow: A Pragmatist Revision of Social Theory and Practice

Donald C. Jones

Abstract

In the second edition of Writing Without Teachers (1998), Peter Elbow issues an explicit "challenge. . . for people to engage me in a theoretical context" (xxv, xxvii). When Elbow is read "carefully" as he requests, much more is at stake than the reputation of one "expressivist" (xxvii). For John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy provides a theoretical framework that not only highlights the strengths of Elbow's theory but also exposes some flaws of social theory and practices so that they can be revised.

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Rhetoric Review
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2002-07-02
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